No more so than his marks for Sophie. She deserved more.

This!!

Susanna by a long, long way! Natalie's good but too many 'filler' moves and non-charleston 'club moves'.

^^This

She most certainly did. I cannot get over the judges marking tonight

Susanna's was better IMO.

I really didn't like the arrangement of the music for Natalie's dance-it was like a 20s dance with 2000 music-it just didn't work for me although her dancing was excellent.

For the same reason I liked Susanna's performance as the music and dance complimented each other, to my mind anyhow!!

Susanna by a long shot and I am not usually a fan of hers

Susanna's my favourite but that routine was helped a lot by the ♫...in direct contrast to Natalie & Artem's.

Natalie's a better dancer no question.

Both deserved their scores of 39. Natalie gave more than Susanna in terms of movement but Susanna's just edged it for me as it was so exciting. The music helped a lot as did Kevin with his leaps. It was a powerful dance.

Natalie was extraordinary, Kevin was brilliant but it's not about the pro, it's about the celeb and Susanna just wafted her skirt for 2 minutes. Loved the drama of the paso, but Natalie was utterly mesmerising. That's my favourite Strictly dance ever bar Kara's.

Preferred Susanna tonight. Thought the costume, the music and the whole performance were first rate.

Natalie usually my favourite, but something seemed a bit lacking tonight. Perhaps because Artem has injured his neck & had to play it safe? The absolutely dreadful music did nothing to help.

Natalie's degree of difficulty outlined her as the stronger technical dancer, but preferred Susanna's choreography, Susanna's dance (Paso beats Charleston easy), Susanna's music. And despite it being a much easier dance in terms of steps, I didnt see her put a foot wrong, whereas Nat and Artem weren't that well synchronised.

So Susanna. (Natalie's bit at the start on her own was aces, though)

Susanna

Susanna and Kevinfromgrimsby were brilliant - I loved the dance and the music. Natalie seemed out of sync with Artem (the only reason I liked their dance at all was because Artem was completely brilliant). Because of Artem I would give them a score of 8 possibly 9.

Susannah by a mile. Natalie was VERY lumpy and out of time in the beginning.

Remember - they are not marking the Pro, only the sleb.

JJ

Kevin and Susanna had so much drama -- though a lot of it came from Kevin. Natalie and Artëm had so much distrait cool -- though much of that came from Artëm.

I can't call it and am letting the knowledgeable Blackpool crowd decide... Susanna!

Susanna by a mile, I enjoyed Nat tonight (always do and i'm glad shes back) but it was all a bit 'meh' for me. I think I would've preferred the Jive that we'll never get to see

Natalie, a great dancer, doing my favourite dance.
I was so looking forward to it...bound to be a cracker.

But it didn't wow me at all. Really disappointed.

I thought she did extremely well, but her head was too low often in the dance and she needed more oomph and exagerration to match Kevin, who was awesome and Kristina like as a distraction.

I don't think there's a huge amount in it - Nat did a tremendously difficult dance, but again not absolutely perfect and it seemed to lose a little energy.

I'm reasonably happy with the tie, but honestly? Nat had the harder job.

Nat will always be a better dancer than Susanna, this is just one of those facts of life. However Susanna and Kevin have a chemistry which at this moment in time, seems unstoppable.

And yes S & K were set-up beautifully by the "traditional" music and production.

Nat's music was a massive fail.

Natalie by a mile

Susanna, traditional dress, music and steps create the right mood for the dance and she danced it very well but I thought the camera concentrated on Kevin a little too much.

Natalie's Charleston was a bit meh for me, poor choice of music and a lot of hesitation preparing for the final trick at the end of the dance not a patch on Sophie's Charleston...why didn't they do their Jive from last week

The dances were obviously very different, I thought both were very good. Suzannah's probably has the edge for me because I love a good Paso and the music for Natalie's didn't quite work for me.

Personally I thought Susanna was the better of the two, she just captured the spirit of the dance so (unexpectedly) well. Kevin and Artem were both brilliant! Unfortunately Artem was so good I kept finding myself concentrating on him so Natalie was slightly overshadowed by him.
Whatever it was an excellent night and for once I shall look forward to watching the show through again instead of cherry picking one or two of the dances to rewatch.

Agree absolutely...... Susanna and Kevin were Am-AY-Zing and helped by the music whereas IMO the music detracted from Natalie's dance.